Rodin worked as Carrier-Belleuse' chief assistant until 1870, designing roof decorations and staircase and doorway embellishments. That year, Rodin offered his first sculpture for exhibition and entered the studio of Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, a successful mass producer of objets d'art. The couple had a son named Auguste-Eugène Beuret (1866–1934). In 1864, Rodin began to live with a young seamstress named Rose Beuret (born in June 1844), with whom he stayed for the rest of his life, with varying commitment. The teacher's attention to detail and his finely rendered musculature of animals in motion significantly influenced Rodin. Rodin returned to work as a decorator while taking classes with animal sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye. Saint Peter Julian Eymard, founder and head of the congregation, recognized Rodin's talent and sensed his lack of suitability for the order, so he encouraged Rodin to continue with his sculpture. He turned away from art and joined the Catholic order of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament. Rodin's sister Maria, two years his senior, died of peritonitis in a convent in 1862, and Rodin was anguished with guilt because he had introduced her to an unfaithful suitor. He left the Petite École in 1857 and earned a living as a craftsman and ornamenter for most of the next two decades, producing decorative objects and architectural embellishments. Rodin's inability to gain entrance may have been due to the judges' Neoclassical tastes, while Rodin had been schooled in light, 18th-century sculpture. Entrance requirements were not particularly high at the Grande École, so the rejections were considerable setbacks. In 1857, Rodin submitted a clay model of a companion to the École des Beaux-Arts in an attempt to win entrance he did not succeed, and two further applications were also denied. It was at Petite École that he met Jules Dalou and Alphonse Legros. His drawing teacher Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran believed in first developing the personality of his students so that they observed with their own eyes and drew from their recollections, and Rodin expressed appreciation for his teacher much later in life. Between ages 14 and 17, he attended the Petite École, a school specializing in art and mathematics where he studied drawing and painting. He was largely self-educated, and began to draw at age 10. Rodin was born in 1840 into a working-class family in Paris, the second child of Marie Cheffer and Jean-Baptiste Rodin, who was a police department clerk. 2.1 Early figures: the inspiration of Italyīiography Formative years.Rodin remains one of the few sculptors widely known outside the visual arts community. His sculptures suffered a decline in popularity after his death in 1917, but within a few decades his legacy solidified.
He married his lifelong companion, Rose Beuret, in the last year of both their lives.
Rodin's other students included Antoine Bourdelle, Constantin Brâncuși, and Charles Despiau.
His student, Camille Claudel, became his associate, lover, and creative rival. Wealthy private clients sought Rodin's work after his World's Fair exhibit, and he kept company with a variety of high-profile intellectuals and artists. Although Rodin was sensitive to the controversy surrounding his work, he refused to change his style, and his continued output brought increasing favor from the government and the artistic community.įrom the unexpected naturalism of Rodin's first major figure – inspired by his 1875 trip to Italy – to the unconventional memorials whose commissions he later sought, his reputation grew, and Rodin became the preeminent French sculptor of his time. He modeled the human body with naturalism, and his sculptures celebrate individual character and physicality. Rodin's most original work departed from traditional themes of mythology and allegory. Many of Rodin's most notable sculptures were criticized, as they clashed with predominant figurative sculpture traditions in which works were decorative, formulaic, or highly thematic. He is known for such sculptures as The Thinker, Monument to Balzac, The Kiss, The Burghers of Calais, and The Gates of Hell. Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, and deeply pocketed surface in clay. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. The Burghers of Calais ( Les Bourgeois de Calais), 1889įrançois Auguste René Rodin (12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917) was a French sculptor, generally considered the founder of modern sculpture.The Walking Man ( L'homme qui marche), 1877–78.The Age of Bronze ( L'age d'airain), 1877.
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